Category ALBUM
This is a sixth album by this astoundingly good German atmospheric black metal band and like others acts in this field their ability to create palpable feeling and tangible emotion is breath-taking. It is also their second concept album, following… Continue Reading →
I first came across Rivers Of Nihil in 2013, initially intrigued by the brightly coloured yet unmistakable artwork of Dan Seagrave that adorned their debut album “The Conscious Seed Of Light”, then utterly blown away by what I heard (in… Continue Reading →
Ah more sweet suffering and this time it is from Belgium and a band who are not the easiest to sum up. Basically, on the strength of third album Stilte they like starting things off slowly, drawing the listener in… Continue Reading →
Sometimes I think calling something experimental is basically code for ‘it sucks, but I meant it to suck’. Other times though I can truly immerse myself in it. In recent months I’ve fallen in love with the underground Goregrind scene… Continue Reading →
Talk about being doomsday prophets. APHND released last album ‘When The World Becomes Undone’ in 2019 and shortly after, that’s exactly what happened. If you thought they were not the happiest band in the world before this, it’s hardly the… Continue Reading →
In 2013, I took part in the tongue-in-cheek promotional video for ProgPower Europe the following year, and remember promoting Aeon Zen. The irony was that I then couldn’t make that ProgPower so never actually saw the band I’d helped to… Continue Reading →
Like so many bands, the pandemic has put restrictions on playing live and the way new material is put together. Washington psyche rockers, Kadabra have overcome this and launched their debut offering “Ultra” and take the listener to somewhere arguably… Continue Reading →
One of the biggest draws to Metal for me is excess, I would have thrived in the early days of Grindcore searching for the most hideous bands I could find. In fact, it’s something me and my best friend would… Continue Reading →
Clarinets with black metal – that’s what we have here. It’s not only clarinets but a host of other instruments including the bagpipes, a violin, trombone, euphonium, darbuka and something called a mandoloncello. The individual behind this is a classical… Continue Reading →
At the time of writing, I am not finding a huge amount of info about Spider God and this release*, indeed it is a web to be unravelled. This is UK based black metal and is described as raw and… Continue Reading →
If Jasun Tipton is involved, the music will be progressive and technical. This is the man behind Abnormal Thought Patterns, Zero Hour and my favourite of his bands Cynthesis. It was a real treat to receive this one, the second… Continue Reading →
Niklas Sundin returns once more with his vast array of musical ideas which finally see the light of day. Having previously covered both Mitochondrial Sun releases; the self titled debut and the intense ‘Sju pulsarer’, EP release, “Bodies And Gold”… Continue Reading →